Now that you know something about newspapers and their layout, have a go at creating your own newspaper using your computer and upload your newspaper as a file to your class display page on the navigation bar. Programmes that you could use for this include MS Word, MS Publisher, Mac Pages or if you have none of these download Open Office at
or do a Google search for "free publishing software" and find something to download for your PC or Mac. This graphic shows the first few on the list but there are many (10,199,996) others so do your own search at http://www.google.co.nz/
Newspapers in Education have some great reading activities
Check out the Kidzone section
http://fairfaxnie.co.nz/26/kidzone/home
Use your local newspaper to take part in a scavenger hunt at
http://fairfaxnie.co.nz/76/teacherzone/scavenger-hunt
or check out the "Breaking News" section at
http://fairfaxnie.co.nz/89/teacherzone/breaking-news
Read newspaper articles online at
http://www.scoop.co.nz/ or http://www.stuff.co.nz/
Now that you know something about newspapers and their layout, have a go at creating your own newspaper using your computer and upload your newspaper as a file to your class display page on the navigation bar. Programmes that you could use for this include MS Word, MS Publisher, Mac Pages or if you have none of these download Open Office at
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or do a Google search for "free publishing software" and find something to download for your PC or Mac. This graphic shows the first few on the list but there are many (10,199,996) others so do your own search at http://www.google.co.nz/